Reading Notes: Aesop's Fables (Jacobs) Reading A

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The Fables of Aesop by Joseph Jacobs
Reading link 


Aesop's Animals. From wiki commons. 

This was such a pleasant exploration of characters and stories. I was shocked at how short a story could be the still portrayed a narrative so clearly and with so much depth. There were two versions of The Fox and the Crane (direct link) where they told the same fables but in even less words. The first was already short, maybe a paragraph and a half, but the second reduced the same story down to a five-line limerick. It would be interesting to explore writing two versions of one story with varied lengths. This could be helpful to explore how concise I want my texts to be. Also, a side note: this reading included a version of the saying "love can tame the wildest." In this fable, it set this up to portray the misleading or judgment-clouding attribute of infatuation. I had always interpreted the saying as one that spoke to the (beneficial) strength of the feeling. 
I would really like to try and rewrite/adapt The Fox and the Goat, because I think it has a pretty unique lesson with some serious depth. There are others that I may want to try the dual-version approach with multiple lengths.

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